16 Families Whose Everyday Life Is Basically a Sitcom

In some families, boredom just doesn’t take root — every day turns into a little adventure. Unpredictable situations, amusing dialogues, and vivid characters make their life resemble a sitcom. In this article, you’ll find stories of families where every day is pure comedy.

• We live in my mother-in-law’s apartment. She can’t live without rags in the kitchen. I tried to throw them away, but it was useless — we’d fight.
  One day, my daughter forgot to turn off the faucet. Water was gushing all over the floor, so I grabbed my mother-in-law’s last rag from the radiator, and found the broken tablet, which I had given her as a gift, underneath it.
  Now I know why she didn’t use it. But she picked a perfect hiding spot — I would never have found it there. © momdarinka
• A conservative family is when your parents have been together for 20 years and have 4 kids. But when they visit Grandma, she still puts them up in different rooms. © Overheard / Ideer
• My wife and I work at a factory, in different areas, but with the same schedule. One day we come home from a shift, both exhausted, eat, and hit the sack. And then my wife, half-asleep, says, “I love you so much! You know, I would even hire someone to give you a massage.” © OlegKova / Pikabu

• My buddy in middle school had like 4 or 5 other siblings, and occasionally they’d do this activity for dinner called hot dog time. Each child was given a paper plate with a bun and plain hot dog. Condiments were hidden around the house, like Easter eggs. There was a countdown, and his parents would shout, “Relish, set, go!” Then we’d run off and try to find the condiments we wanted. © airfryerfuntime / Reddit
• My stepfather, after the divorce, rarely saw my brother, his son. In his mind, my brother must have remained a third-grader, who he was when he left.
  There were some of his things left in the apartment. When we were getting ready to move out, my mom called him and suggested he pick up his things. He eventually came over and saw a pair of gigantic men’s shoes in the hallway and started accusing my mom, “You found yourself a man? You only think about your personal life!”
  Then my nearly 6′ 6″ brother, now an eleventh grader, came out of the room and said the shoes were his, and he would never let anyone disrespect our mom. © Overheard / Ideer
• I went with my daughter to the dentist at a new clinic. I was a bit anxious, but my daughter was surprisingly calm.
  We entered the office, she quickly sat down in the chair and stated that she’s not afraid, so no need to coddle her. Everyone smiled, and the dental assistant asked what cartoon to play, to which my daughter calmly replied, “No cartoons, let’s have music instead. You can put on Mozart, I’ll feel even more at ease.”
  It seems she not only enjoyed it, but also won over everyone’s hearts there. © Mamdarinka / VK

• My mother-in-law once took my significant other’s keys to our house and made copies for herself without telling us. She believes firmly that houses should stay unlocked, so family can walk in and out uninvited as they please.
  My significant other and I do not adhere to this, so our doors are always locked, so my mother-in-law’s reaction was to take my significant other’s keys and make copies. She was not happy when we changed the locks. © Unknown author / Reddit
• My daughter is 6 years old, and lately, she has been behaving strangely with my husband. Sometimes she offers him raw meat, or she drags him to the big mirror and keeps him there for 5 minutes.
  Yesterday, after my husband left, she called me into her room to show me something. It turned out to be an article, “How to Spot a Werewolf.” Then she added, “Mom, we’re living with a werewolf!” and started crying.
  I had to comfort her and explain that everything’s fine and there are no werewolves at home. But where did she get this idea? © Not everyone will understand / VK
• My husband sleeps very soundly, but in his sleep he tends to slowly push me to the wall, so I end up touching the wall with my nose. And he throws his leg over me. He doesn’t hear alarms, it’s useless to nudge him with my elbow, or to persuade him to move over.
  But if I whisper in the most irritating way, “Hon, move ove-e-er,” he immediately shifts back to his side of the bed without waking up. © maruska2998 / Pikabu

• There’s this friend. They say “He’s got hands of gold” about people like him. He can do anything around the house. If he puts up wallpaper, you can search with a magnifying glass and still not find the seam between the strips.
  But he couldn’t stand home improvement shows. All because his mother-in-law would watch them, and then start nagging him, “Look how they did everything in 40 minutes! And you can’t finish the hallway in 2 months.” © Snakecatcher / Pikabu
• Vacuuming the entire house every night and my dad doing a white glove test on everyone’s furniture once a week to make sure we deep cleaned it to his standards. © Chris968 / Reddit
• We lived in an old-style apartment with a gas heater. If you turned on the water in the bathroom and the kitchen at the same time, the water pressure would drop, and the automatic heater would go out. The water turns cold. There’s a window between the bathroom and the kitchen in apartments like this.
  My husband came home from work exhausted and went to take a shower. Meanwhile, the son came out of the bathroom and accidentally turned off the bathroom light. I was in the kitchen, saw through the window that my husband’s light went out.
  So I turned on the tap, extinguishing the heater. Silence. Just the sound of icy water in the dark bathroom. I stand there thinking, “What a man! Is he really taking a shower in the dark with cold water?”
  And then a desperate shout from there, “At least turn the light back on!” © KindlyVita / Pikabu

• My wife took up food photography. It’s when you have to beautifully photograph food. Now half of our kitchen is filled with vintage plates, cups, glasses, and other clutter.
  We were walking the dog the other day. My wife saw an old, crooked, shabby chair near the dumpster. She said, “Bring it home!”
  Turns out she had a retro-style marshmallow photo shoot in mind. Now I’m afraid to go outside with my wife. Yesterday, she spotted an old refrigerator by the dumpster. I can’t carry that up to the 9th floor by myself. © Caramel / VK
• My taxi rating dropped so low, only the 7th driver would pick me up. He looked at me like I was dangerous. Then I realized — I’d been sending my 85-year-old mom by taxi all month.
  When I asked what she did with the drivers, she calmly replied, “I sit in the front and actively explain to them how to drive and where to go!” © lt_psy.ru / Threads
• When we were kids, my mom would start yelling “to quickly look out the windows!” Only to rush there, and she’d say, “Look at that full moon in the sky.”
  To this day, 30 years later, we all still do this to each other. We could be separated by countries or oceans, we’ll send emails or texts to “run to the windows and look outside at the moon.” © Unknown author / Reddit
• In childhood, our huge family would discuss our dreams every single morning. Even when we grew up and moved away, we’d call each other and talk about our dreams. When I started dating a guy, I also started asking him about his dreams, but he looked at me like I was crazy. I just thought it was what everyone did. © meowdrian / Reddit

And these heartwarming stories prove that family is meant to last forever.